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Special Features
- GRID COMPUTING -- HYPE OR TRIPE?
An Articulation By Mike Bernhardt
- Much is being said today about all the "hype" in the Grid computing
market space, and how damaging it is to establishing a business case for Grid in
commercial enterprises. In this column, Mike Bernhardt, CEO of Grid
Strategies and GRIDtoday contributing editor, looks to clear the air ...
and teach us a little about the many ways to prepare tripe.
- GridXpert CEO ON GRID MATURATION IN EUROPE
By Derrick Harris, Editor
- GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris recently spoke with GridXpert CEO Sven
Lung about his up and coming company. GridXpert is based in France, and
Lung discusses, among other topics, the differences in Grid adoption between
European companies and those based in the United States.
- NCSA TO LEAD GridShib PROJECT
- NCSA and collaborators at Argonne National Laboratory and the University
of Chicago will receive $1 million to combine the strengths of Shibboleth,
developed by the Internet2 cooperative, with the Globus Toolkit, developed
by the Globus Alliance.
- IT VENDORS RELEASE ROYALTY-FREE SOFTWARE FOR RELIABLE MESSAGING
- Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Ltd, and NEC Corp announced that they are making
available as open source their jointly developed messaging software that
implements the Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) standard, a
messaging specification for Web services designed to ensure superior
reliability.
Systems/Enterprise
- EGA REACHES 25 MEMBERS; FIRST VAR, END-USER JOIN
- Avarsys, Dell and UBS will help address the obstacles facing widespread
adoption of enterprise Grids by looking at best practices and solutions
that are open and interoperable through their work in the EGA's working groups,
including reference models, provisioning, security and accounting.
- DataSynapse FORMS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH GOLDMAN SACHS
- Goldman Sachs joins a growing roster of 30 clients who rely on GridServer
to help them realize the benefits of an agile and responsive IT
infrastructure. The relationship reinforces DataSynapse's leadership
position in the demanding financial services sector.
- PAREMUS ENHANCES PRICING, RISK ANALYTICS SOLUTION
- Risk management applications are critical to the day-to-day operation of
many financial services organizations, and the Infiniflow enterprise Grid
provides the ideal resilient environment for the QuIC Platform.
Applications
- CAHPC SHOWCASES FLASH CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE TOOLS
- Howard University's Center for Applied High Performance Computing's
MammoData, a Web-accessible Grid tool for collaborative breast cancer
diagnosis, made an immediate impression on spectators, due in part, to a
flashy Web-accessible user interface.
- TRIGENCE ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR SOLARIS 10
- Sun Solaris customers who are embracing Sun's N1 container approach can
easily add Trigence AE above N1 to provide portability, easy provisioning
and on-demand delivery with Sun's Solaris 10 containers.
Breaking News
"We see a fast maturation of the European marketplace
regarding Grid-based initiatives in the industry sector. Large
industrial players ... are faced with an exponential need for additional
computing power driven by simulation." -- Sven Lung, CEO, GridXpert
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